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1) Storymakers
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Storymakers features internationally known Australian writers and illustrators of children's books. The series is designed to develop children's awareness of how books are conceived and created, and to encourage a love of books and reading. Each film in the series highlights different aspects of the process of creating a book. A Film Australia National Interest Program. 2011 National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. Executive Producer: Janet Bell....
2) Dedication
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Henry is a misanthropic, emotionally complex children's book author who is forced to team up with a beautiful illustrator after his best friend and creative collaborator passes away. As Henry struggles with letting go of the ghosts of love and life, he discovers that sometimes you have to take a gamble at life to find love.
5) Dean
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Dean is an illustrator whose unwillingness to deal with the recent death of his mother means escaping his hometown of New York for an interview with an ad agency in Los Angeles. His retired engineer dad Robert takes a more regimented approach to grief, including putting the family home up for sale. Both father and son set out on their own paths to find a new normal as unexpected circumstances and potential new love interests threaten to thwart all...
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Examines Norman Rockwell, "the artist of the people," using archival footage and visual images from the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Featuring interviews with historians, critics, family, friends and admirers, this production gives an in depth look at the artist, his art and the Americana he created with his brushstrokes.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Pekar is a frustrated file clerk working at the local V.A. Hospital. He is also a comic book fan who befriends the young illustrator Robert Crumb and is soon inspired to create comic books based on his own life. Along his bumpy journey he meets, marries and falls in love with Joyce, an admiring comic book seller.
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
This is a deeply moving portrait of Maurice Sendak, a seminal talent who is conflicted with his success, and whose lifelong obsession with death has subtly and ironically influenced his work. Now 81, Sendak is best known for his first book, Where the wild things are, which he wrote after spending ten years as an illustrator. Through his own words, firsthand photos, and illustrations, Sendak offers a rare, intimate, and unexpected look at his exceptional...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Movie fans know the work of Harold and Lillian, even if they don't recognize the names. Working largely uncredited in the Hollywood system, storyboard artist Harold and film researcher Lillian left an indelible mark on classics by Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg, Mel Brooks, Stanley Kubrick, Roman Polanski and many more. Through an engaging mix of love letters, film clips and candid conversation with Harold and Lillian, Danny DeVito, Mel Brooks,...
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